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Jon Stewart will be the celebrity guest host of WWE's annual SummerSlam event, which is happening this Sunday at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. <i>USA Today</i> was first to report the appearance, which will be Stewart's first major entertainment gig since his final show as <i>The Daily Show's</i> anchor earlier this …

Courtroom cameras captured the bittersweet moment that a south Florida judge realized the burglary suspect in front of her was a former middle-school classmate.<p>Arthur Booth, 49, was in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for a bond hearing Thursday when Judge Mindy Glazer asked him if he had attended a nearby …

Software could crash and markets suffer as a leap second is added to world time at midnight tonight<p>Airlines, trading floors and technology companies are braced for chaos today as world timekeepers prepare to add a leap second to global clocks.<p>Immediately before midnight dials will read 11:59:60 as …

The Vermont senator is the lone presidential candidate to voice his displeasure with the Israeli government<p>Earlier this week, NPR host Diane Rehm bizarrely asked Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is competing for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, whether he is an Israeli-American dual …

Museum tricks male moths into thinking other males are females in bid to stop them reproducing as it wages gender warfare on cloth-eating insects<p>Sexually confusing moths might not seem the obvious solution to protecting your cashmere but it could be the most effective way to prevent insects from …

The British-Indian artist is causing a stir at the royal château with large modern sculptures on the famed ‘tapis vert’<p>“IT’S VERY SHOCKING!” an elderly Frenchwoman cries as she interrupts her promenade down the main axis of the Gardens of Versailles to point out a massive boulder, spray-painted a …

Marine biologists, archeologists, and many others are posting images with the hashtag #DistractinglySexy in response to comments made by British scientist Tim Hunt earlier this week.<p>Not a great statement to make at a conference honoring women in science.<p>BuzzFeed News has reached out to <i>Vagenda</i> …

Talk about showing off.<p>Boeing posted a clip on YouTube of its 787-9 Dreamliner passenger jet taking off and rising at such a steep angle that it appears to be nearly vertical, like a rocket. The company said in the description that the maneuver was a rehearsal for the Paris Air Show, the industry …

Superficial facial flaws among indicators that could mark out man as child abuser as well as his dominant hand, researchers discover<p>Paedophiles are most likely to be left handed and have attached earlobes, a new study has found.<p>“Superficial” facial flaws – which might also include malformed ears or …

New poll data suggest a majority of Americans now hold a favorable opinion of W. Here’s what they’re forgetting<p>George W. Bush is trending on the Internet for a surprising reason. A CNN/ORC Poll that recently hit the Web yielded some good news for the embattled former president: For the first time …

Full coverage of the Fifa media conference in Zurich after Fifa's president stands down after 17 years following the latest corruption scandal<p>Latest<p><b>Warner compares England using Beckham to Qatar bribery: live</b><p>05.10<p><b>Bloomberg</b> reports that Fifa sponsors Cola-Cola, Budweiser and Adidas AG have joined …

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday acquitted 17 people of violating a strict protest law earlier this year at a march commemorating a 2011 uprising, judicial sources said, a rare decision since Egypt introduced the statute in late 2013.<p>The demonstration in January caught the world’s …

Bill Maher & Richard Dawkins continue to disparage a religion that, in all honesty, they know little about<p>As a practicing Muslim, I don’t believe Islam is above criticism. I do believe that Islam backs free speech. I also believe that Islam champions secular governance. But what’s significant about …

Prime Xavi would still dominate today. Don't compare him to Pep Guardiola.<p>In the season he suffered his first and only major injury, a 25-year-old version of Xavi Hernández wasn't handed back his place in Barcelona's team when he got healthy. He was an unused substitute in the 2006 Champions League …

Dubbed the Buzludzha Monument, after the mountain it was built on, the structure became the headquarters for the Bulgarian Communist party. Finished in 1981, it was only used for eight years before it was abandoned when the Iron Curtain fell.<p>While many in the government would like to restore the …

They go where other soldiers fear to tread, scoping out potential threats, taking out strategic targets, and conducting daring rescue missions.<p>These really are the best of the best.<p>Although it's extremely difficult to rank these forces relative to one another, there are some units that rise above …

In the Western popular imagination -- particularly the American one -- World War II is a conflict <i>we</i> won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped …

The latest entry of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s popular manga, Gundam: The Origin, has topped the New York Times manga best seller list.<p>Considering that Gundam: The Origin is facing off against big and popular titles like Naruto and Attack on Titan it’s interesting to see the manga take the top …

Konami is trying really, really hard to make you forget that P.T. ever existed. That plan is backfiring.<p>In the wake of <i>Silent Hills'</i> cancellation, Konami has done virtually everything in its power to scrub <i>P.T.</i>'s existence from the face of the planet. First, it quietly revealed plans to remove the …

What is the easiest way to learn? David Robson meets a group of scientists and memory champions competing to find techniques that make facts stick... fast.<p>Face to face with the world’s leading memory experts, my mind is beginning to feel very humble. Ben Whately, for instance, tells me about the …

Chelsea vs Manchester United, Premier League - The midfielder showed yet again why he should be a certainty for all the player of the year awards<p>Deep into injury time, Eden Hazard was withdrawn from this hugely significant <b>Premier League</b> game here at Stamford Bridge, his work done, his goal scored, …